cygnet
/ˈsɪɡnɪt
/noun
A young swan.After hatching, parents led the cygnets to feeding grounds on lawns surrounding the lake or shallow water close to the shore....
- Goslings graze with their parents out of the water whereas swans teach cygnets in the water to be aquatic feeders.
- Congratulations and well done to the two English anglers who were fishing on Gills Pond recently and rescued a young cygnet that was in trouble.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French cignet, diminutive of Old French cigne 'swan', based on Latin cycnus, from Greek kuknos.
Rhymes
- Recognizance Rolls
- recognizant
- recognizate
- recognization
- recognize
- recognizee
- recognizer
- recognizingly
- recognizor
- recognosce
- recohabitation
- recoil
- recoil action
- recoil energy
- recoiler
- twister
- twist-grip
- twist in the wind
- twist-lock
- twistor
- twist (or turn) the knife (in the wound)
- twist (or wind or wrap) someone around one's little finger
- twists and turns
- twist someone around one's little finger
- twist someone's arm